Display rack



March 11, 1924; 1,486,139

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A .Mfm A Y- March 11, 1924. 1,486,139 R. Q. HERRING E'r AL f DISPLAY RACK Filed March 21 i 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 11, 1924.

UNITED Astaresv PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT e. HERRING JAND ANDREW M. GRAY, E EAETIMORE'MAEYDAND, AssIGNoRs To MARELAND Biscuits COMPANY.

DISPLAY RACK.

Application led March 21, 1923. Serial No. 626,684.

To aZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that ROBERT Q. HERRING and ANDREW M. GRAY, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore city and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Racks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to display racks, and has as an object the provision of a rack which may be readily set up at a given place and have placed thereon containers, which containers may be displayed to the best advantage.

A further object of this invention is to provide a metal display rack equipped with adjustable shelves so that cake containers now inuse may be supported on these shelves at such an angle as to permit the contents of the containers to be removed without any danger of said contents spilling from the containers when the covers thereof are open.

A still further object of this invention is the provision of a rack which is easily constructed and assembled, and one which can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of our display rack, and made in accordance with this invention, Y

ligure 2 is a side elevational view of the rac Figure 3 is an enlarged, detailed, fragmentary, vertical, sectional view of one of the supporting shoes of the rack,

Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional view of the shelf, showing its relative position with the side frames ofthe rack, and illustrating the shelf in horizontal position,

Figure 5 is a fragmentary, side elevational view of the rack, showing the shelf in angular position relative to the side of the rack, and

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 6 6 of Figure 5.v

The display stand or rack, as shown, is en- 50 tirely constructed of metal and includes a pair of side supporting members 10 which are held in upright position by suitable shoes 11, which are secured to the lower terminals of the uprightsv 10, by such suitable fastening means as rivets 12.

Secured' between the opposing faces of the uprights 10, are a plurality of relatively spaced adjustable shelves 13. The shelves are capable of being held horizontally between the uprights 10, or adjusted to an angle relative to the upright members 10.

The upri'ghts 10 are each formed of a single pieceof metal bent to a substantially invertedjU-shape, and the terminals of the arms are secured by the rivets 12l inthe shoes 11, as shown in Figure 3.

To support the shelves 13 between the opposing faces of the uprights 10, we provide bolts 14, on the threaded ends of which are secured suitable wing lnuts 15.

The shelves 13 are each stamped from a single blank of material, and include depending side ilanges 16 and front flange 17.

A portion of the side flanges 16 is split as at 18, to permit the rear edges of the shelf to be bent upwardly to providevarear supporting ange 19, the opposite ends of which are bent' inwardly at right anglesthereto, to provide attaching flanges 20. The flanges 20 are severed from the shelves as at 21, to permit them to be turned nwardly at right angles to the rear flange 19, and these flanges are also provided with arcuate slots 22, through which certain of the bolts 14 extend so as to permit the rear end of the shelves 13 to be moved downwardly from a horizontal position, as shown in Figure 4, to an inclined position', asl shown in Figure 5, so as to permit the containers, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, to be placed Vthereon in an inclined kposition so that the covers of these containers may be readily opened and the contents removed therefrom without fear of the said contents being displaced from the containers accidentally.

In assembling our rack or stand, the shelves 13 are fastened adjacent their forward edges by the boltsy 14 extending through the side flanges 16 and the uprights 10, and the wing nuts fastened thereon. Bolts 14 are then extended through the slots of the attaching flanges 2O and the uprights 10, and wing nuts placed thereon, thus permitting the shelf to be moved either to a horizontal position, or various degrees of angular positions relative to the uprights.

It is readily understood that by virtue of the bolts 14 and nuts 15 that the shelves 18 can be rigidly secured in their adjusted positions by fitting the Vnuts 15 thightly on the bolts 14 against the uprights Y10. Y

Minor changes may be made in the physical embodiment of the invention without departing from its spirit.

Having thus described our invention, what Y we claim as new and desire to procure by Letters Patent is: j

1. A metal display rack comprising a pair` of substantially inverted U-shaped uprights, shoes secured to the terminals vof ysaid uprights, shelves including depending side flanges and front flange secured between the uprights, removable means extending through the uprights and side flanges of the shelves adjacent the forwardends thereof to support the shelves .between the uprights, an upstanding rear flange on said shelves, side attaching flanges 4formeel on said rear flange and at right angles thereto,

land means extending through said side attaching flanges and uprights whereby said shelves may be moved and held in different adjusted positions relative to said uprights.

2. A metal display rack including uprigths, shoes for said uprights, shelves secured between said uprights, said shelves including a body having a depending front flange anddepending side flanges, means eX- tending through said side flanges and uprights adjacent the forward ends thereof to adjustably secure and support the shelves to the uprights, an upstanding flange formed on the rear of each shelf7 the opposite ends of said last ynamed flanges bent at right angles thereto to form attaching flanges, said attaching flanges provided with arcuate slots, and Winea-ns extending through said .slots of the. attaching flanges and uprights whereby said shelves may *be moved and heldin adjusted positions relative to the uprights.

In testimony whereof they hereunto affix ytheir signatures.

ROBERT Q. HERRING. ANDREW M. GRAY. 

